[ noun ] the most widely spoken Bantu languages; the official language of Kenya and Tanzania and widely used as a lingua franca in east and central Africa <noun.communication>
Kwanzaa, which means 'harvest' in Swahili, is a seven-day celebration that includes fasting, family dinners, candle-lighting ceremonies and group discussion on topics such as unity and co-operative economics.
VOA Director Richard Carlson informed employees on Friday that the Lao, Greek, Turkish, Swahili, Slovene and Uzbek language programs would remain on the air and their 57 broadcasters and producers would keep their jobs.
Afterwards, the polyglot pope offered brief Easter greetings in 52 languages ranging from English to Ukrainian to Swahili.
The pope spoke in English, with several passages of Swahili mixed in, from an altar with a bamboo backdrop.